It's that time of year again... Santa Claus is dusting off his baubles and we're being overrun by terrible Christmas songs 24 hours a day on the radio. What are the best garage punk Christmas tracks to defeat the cheesy pop music monster???

Now in the Lovesores http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chod2CRhY2Y

Also two old faves:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN8n99BUO-A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHFdYYIaEIc

It almost goes without saying, but: The Sonics - "Santa Claus" and "I Don't Believe in Christmas"

The Didjits - "Under the Christmas Fish",

Sloppy Seconds - "Lonely Christmas",

Chuck Berry - "Run Run Rudolph" (also The Humpers' version),

Jukebox Zeroes - "Christmas in the City (Ain't Too Pretty)",

and The Stooges - "Now I Wanna Be Your Dog", if only for the sleigh bells.

That's pretty funny "If only for the sleighbells.".

Wailers - Christmas Spirit.

Plan 9 - "Merry Christmas".

Andre Williams - "Poor Mr. Santa Claus" (XXX Rated version.)

Bob Seger - "Sock it To Me , Santa"

Teddy and The Tall Tops - "Christmas in The Congo"

James Chance - "Christmas With Satan"

Ramones - "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight ).

Slade - Merry Christmas , Everybody

Gary Glitter - "(Let's Have a ) Rock 'n'Roll Christmas"  (Yeah , I know , bu t, you listen to the pHIL sPECTOR cHRISTMAS aLBUM , don't you ?)

Wizzard - "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day"

Cordell Jackson - "Rock'n'Roll Christmas".

Elvis - "Santa Claus is Back in Town".

Screamin' Jay Hawkins with The Fuzztones - "It's That Time Again'

Trashmen - " Dancing With Santa"

Royal Guardsmen "Snoopy's Christmas".

POLKAHOLICS "Sausage Balls" (Jingle Bells)........ok ,they're not all Garage Punk , but , if you're sick to death of Christmas music , already (And who could blame you?), it's a good place to start.....

Oh, forgot all about the Ramones tune. 

Speaking of Slade and holiday songs, I've always liked their rendition of "Auld Lang Syne"/"You'll Never Walk Alone". 

Joe , Yeah  , I like it , too. Slade put out an album in the 80's called "Crackers". It's made up mostly of party songs . It was reisseued , years later , but , I doubt there's a version of it available , today. It's a great album.

Almost any Elvis Xmas songs , and , ALL James Brown - esp. "Hey , America" - "....Let's come together , Black ,  Brown ,BLUE OR GREEN....Even a man I have never seen...LET'S CELEBRATE WITH WINE ! VOLARE ! HAVA NAGILA !".

Cheers everyone, I'm making my garage Christmas album now!

EHHHHHH, WHO WAS THE BAND THAT DID THE MEDLEY OF "GLORIA" AND "GLORIA IN EXCELCISIS DEO" (THE POLKAHOLICS LATER DID THE SAME THING AS "GLORIA IN EXCELSIS POLKA")....I don't have any of 'em , but the series that track came from , Midnight Records' Christmas , had some good 'uns. Actually my favorite was rejected. My friend's band , DIMENTIA 13 , did a great , short , send up of "Inna Gadda Da Vida " as "In The Time of The Season", with a Farfisa ,supposedly played once by Sly Stone , and their (Female !) Bass player doing a letter - perfect impersonation of Doug Ingle.

J.D. Martignon , label Prez , did'nt want to use it.

Can't forget the three bonus tracks on the Norton re-release of Here Are the Sonics!!!

"Don't Believe in Christmas"

"Santa Claus"

"The Village Idiot" (weird little diddy)

Actually got that album for Christmas when I was just gettin into garage... them were the days...

SpaceCase , I thought somebody did mention those.....Yeah, them were the days....Except I did'nt meet anyone who was into this stuff until I changed schools. I think i waited so long to buy any Pebbles LPs because I only knew some of the bands and songs , while , when I changed colleges , we had a record store , a REAL one , in town , and I found "Nuggets , The Hits' " , I said , holy shit ! I know these songs. I NEED these songs. What does that have to do with Christmas ? Nothing , just thought you'd like to get your mind off of it , momentarily.